Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Mr. Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution first engaged my attention as the transient topic of the day; and reading it more for amusement than information, my indignation was roused by the sophistical arguments, that every moment crossed me, in the questionable shape of...
Our penal laws punish with death the thief who steals a few pounds; but to take by violence, or trepan, a man, is no such heinous offence.—For who shall dare to complain of the...
3. Part 3A surgeon would tell you that by skinning over a wound you spread disease through the whole frame; and, surely, they indirectly aim at destroying all purity of morals, who poiso...
6. Part 6The test of honour may be arbitrary and fallacious, and, retiring into subterfuge, elude close enquiry; but true morality shuns not the day, nor shrinks from the ordeal of inves...
1. Part 1Mr. Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution first engaged my attention as the transient topic of the day; and reading it more for amusement than information, my indignation...
4. Part 4Besides, I cannot help suspecting that, if you had the _enlightened_ respect for yourself, which you affect to despise, you would not have said that the constitution of our chur...
5. Part 5Our House of Commons, it is true, has been celebrated as a school of eloquence, a hot-bed for wit, even when party intrigues narrow the understanding and contract the heart; yet...
7. Part 7Before I conclude my cursory remarks, it is but just to acknowledge that I coincide with you in your opinion respecting the _sincerity_ of many modern philosophers. Your consist...